There's a lot to say about the dramatic, emotional Baltimore Ravens' 38-35 double overtime win over the Denver Broncos in the AFC Playoffs on Saturday.

Did it rank among the best playoff games in NFL history? One cannot say the game lacked drama as both teams punched back and forth...

The David Wax Museum, whom I profiled last year, has been one of the most pleasant stories in music today -- a band that went from grass roots outfit to Newport Folk main stage players and Americana darlings off the strength of two self-released albums within 12 months...

After the season that was for Denver Broncos second-year quarterback Tim Tebow (you might have heard about him), it seems a good time to sit back, take a deep breath, and try to make sense of it all.

1. Tim Tebow was not as good as his most avid supporters...

The 2011 St. Louis Cardinals completed one of the greatest comeback stories in Major League Baseball history by winning the World Series last week.

It never should have happened. And I don't mean because an overworked Texas Rangers bullpen couldn't hold two late-inning leads in Game 6.

First: All credit...

I'm amazed by the flack New York Mets shortstop Jose Reyes is getting. I'm especially astounded by the comments from those who should know their baseball history better.

Reyes went into game number 162 last Wednesday afternoon leading Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League batting race,...

As I listened to a broadcast of the David Wax Museum opening the Sunday performances on the main stage at this year's Newport Folk Festival, I was simultaneously excited to hear a great act on the verge of blowing up while lamenting that the band is destined for mainstream audiences...

It usually would be extraneous to talk about a movie poster in a movie review, but in this case the poster for Woody Allen's latest feature, Midnight in Paris, is particularly instructive. Here we see Owen Wilson, cast in the role of the stereotypical Allen protagonist and even dressed in...

First, a disclosure: I'm a Duke Blue Devils fan. I didn't attend the university, and I've been told by someone from the South that I would have fit in better with the student body on the rival Chapel Hill campus than I would have with the one in Durham. (I...

Most of the talk centering around this past week's Champions League match between AC Milan and Tottenham has been about the disgraceful lack of sportsmanship shown by Milan midfielders Matthieu Flamini and Gennaro Gattuso. It's unfortunate because the real story of the game should have been how an undermanned underdog...

As we hit the midpoint of the winter, it seems a good time to look at the latest release from The Decemberists, The King Is Dead, proving to be the band's breakthrough album.

The indie-cum-Capitol recording artists holed themselves up for six weeks last spring on a farm near Portland,...

I recently saw the perfect heterosexual date-movie double bill: Burlesque and Black Swan.

Yes, I said heterosexual. Sure, the latter is about ballet and the former has Cher and Christina, but the two films are twin journeys into the voyeuristic world of ripped female bodies and supercharged girl-on-girl tension. And...

It's two years into the first term of a young Democratic president, one whose election brought a sense of hope to the White House after two terms of a polarizing Republican presidency, but who now faces declining approval ratings and the loss of Congressional seats for his Party.

The year...

"As my flight approached America last weekend, my mind circled back to the furor that has broken out over plans to build Cordoba House, a community center in Lower Manhattan [in a building that was damaged by plane debris on 9/11, to be precise, but I'll be downplaying that connection...

Woodstock and Altamont. These two music festivals occurred within less than four months of each other, but they summon wildly different images: the former, the apotheosis of the Flower Child generation; the latter, the death of the counterculture, the archetypal loss of innocence. As journalist Michael Lydon summed up in...

The Woodstock Music and Art Festival took place in the town of Bethel,
forty years ago this week. Although the ready-for-retrospective cliché
is that it's hard to imagine Woodstock happened that long ago, I find
it hard to imagine that those three days of peace and music...